(Photo from Cherie Muggli)

Glenfield, ND (NewsDakota.com) – The Oakes Tornadoes came into Midkota Highschool riding an 11 set win streak, a 5 match win streak and a tie for the #1 spot in District 5 with LaMoure-LM. They walked out with a 6th straight win and sole possession of the #1 position after winning a 5 setter against the Griggs-Midkota Titans. (16-25, 25-14, 25-21, 22-25, 15-11)

The match started with back and forth scoring with the Titans having a slight advantage before a 6th tie at 12-12 before the Titans took and maintained the lead for the rest of the set going on a 13-4 run to end set one with a 25-16 victory ending Oakes set win streak at 11.

The Tornados came out with aggression in set 2 taking a 14-9 lead that’d extend to 22-11. Oakes would get set point at 24-12 but they would struggle to finish off the set as Griggs-Midkota would take 2 more points before Oakes inevitably won the set 25-14.

Oakes would keep up the pressure with a dominant set 3 as they would take a lead early after 4-4. The lead wouldn’t get more then 1 or 2 points before 13-12 when Oakes would take over and go on a 7 point run to make it 20-12 before trading points back and forth till 24-15. The Tornados would again struggle to get the win as the Titans would score 6 straight points before Oakes would again win 25-21.

The 4th set was a struggle back and forth with 6 lead changes and 9 ties through the set. Oakes would have the lead for the most of the set and would have a 21-18 lead late in the set before the Titans battled back to tie it at 22-22 and take the lead immediately following that to win the set 25-22 and force a set 5.

Set 5 was back and for most of the way with Oakes leading most of the way but there would be 3 ties as late as 8-8. Oakes would then go on a 7-3 run to end the set on a Ann Muggli block to win it 15-11.

Molly Sitzler was named the Bank North Player of the Game.

Due to EKM sweeping LaMoure-LM, Oakes now holds the top spot in District 5 with a 4-1 record with a chance to clinch the #1 seed next Tuesday in Oakes against the Carrington Cardinals. Before that however the Tornados will take on the Richland Colts in Oakes on Thursday October 10th. You can catch all of the action on KDDR The Tornado with pregame starting around 6:50 pm and the match starting at 7:00 pm.